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A05597	The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica Perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surveying of forty eight kingdomes ancient and modern; twenty one rei-publicks, ten absolute principalities, with two hundred islands. ... divided into three bookes: being newly corrected, and augmented in many severall places, with the addition of a table thereunto annexed of all the chiefe heads. Wherein is contayed an exact relation of the lawes, religions, policies and governments of all their princes, potentates and people. Together with the grievous tortures he suffered by the Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine ... And of his last and late returne from the Northern Isles, and other places adjacent. By William Lithgow.; Most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke	Lithgow, William, 1582-1645?	1640 (1640)	STC 15714; ESTC S108592	306,423	530

auriti decem being the perfit mirrour and lively Portraicture of true understanding excelling farre all inventions whatsoever either Poeticke or Theorick And now to shunne Ingratitude which I disdain as Hell I thought it best to exhibit the profit of my painfull Travailes to the desirous World for two respects for as my dangerous adventures have beene wrought out from the infinite variety of variable Sights innumerable toyles pleasures and inevitable sorrowes so doth it also best simpathize with reason and most fitting that I should generally dispose of the same to the temperate iudgements of the better sort the sound and absolute opinions of the Judicious and to the variable censures of calumni●us Criticks who run at randon in the fields of other mens Labour but can not find the home-bred way in their owne close grounds and therefore the different disposition of the good and bad doe best concurre with the interchangeable occurrences of the matter Neverthelesse for thy more easier understanding I have divided this History into ten Parts and they also into three Bookes which being seriously perused doubtlesse thy Labour shall receive both profit and pleasure Accept them therefore with the same love that I offer them to thee since they cost thee nothing but the Reading how deare soever they are to me But understand me better I scorne to draw my Pen to the ignorant Foole for I contemne both To the Wise I know it will be welcome to the profound Historian yeeld Knowledge Contemplation and direction and to the understanding Gentleman insight instruction and recreation and to the true bred Poet fraternall love both in meane and manner Now as touching the hissing of snakish Papists a tush for that snarling Crew for as this Worke being fensed with experience and garnished with trueth is more then able to batter downe the stinging venome of their despightfull Waspishnes so also they may clearely see therein as in a Mirrour their owne blindnes and the damnable errours of their blind Guiders Deceiuers and Idolaters And aboue all the cruell infliction imposed vpon me by the mercilesse Inquisition of their profession in Malaga which for Christs sake I constantly suffered in Tortures Torments and Hunger And lastly they may perceive Gods miraculous Mercy in discovering and delivering me from such a concealed and inhumane murther And now referring the well set Reader to the History it selfe where satisfaction lyeth ready to receive him and expectation desirous of deserved thankes I come to talke talke with the scelerate Companion If thou beest a Villain a Ruffian a Momus a Knave a C●rper a Critick a Bubo a Buffon a stupid Asse and a gnawing Worme with envious Lips I bequeath thee to a Carnificiall reward where a hempen Rope will soone dispatch thy snarling slander and free my toylesome Travailes and now painefull Labours from the deadly poyson of thy sharpe edged calumnies and so goe hang thy selfe for I neither will respect thy Love nor regard thy Malice and shall ever and alwayes remaine To the Courteous still Observant And to the Criticall Knave as he deserveth William Lithgow To his singular friend Mr. William Lithgow THe double travaile Lithgow thou hast tane One of thy Feet the other of thy Braine Thee with thy selfe do make for to contend Whether the Earth thou 'st better pac'd or pend Would Malagaes sweet liquor had thee crown'd And not its trcachery made thy ioynts unsound For Christ King Country what thou there indu●'d Not them alone but therein all injur'd Their tort'ring Rack arresting of thy pace Hath barr'd our hope of the worlds other face Who is it sees this side so well exprest That with desire doth not long for the rest Thy travail'd Countries so described be As Readers thinke they doe each Region see Thy well compacted matter ornat Stile Doth them oft in quicke sliding Time beguile Like as a Maide wandring in Floraes Bowers Confin'd to small time of few flitting howers Rapt with delight of her eye-pleasing treasure Now culling this now that Flower takes such pleasure That the strict time whereto she was confin'd Is all expir'd whiles she thought halfe behind Or more remain'd So each attracting Line Makes them forget the time they do not tine But since sweet future travaile is cut short Yet loose no time now with the Muses sport That reading of Thee after times may tell In Travaile Prose and Verse thou didst excell Patrick Hannay TO THE HIGH and mighty Monarch CHARLES By the Grace of GOD King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland c. Gracious SIR IF Loyall Duty may be counted presumption then doubtlesse the be●t of my meanest worth must begge pardon for claiming so Royall a Patronage Yet to whom should I prostrate my Pen and Pilgrimage if not unto your Sacred Majesty Nay none so able to Receive it none so powerfull to Protect it and none so justly to claime it as your Soveraigne Selfe The subject treateth of my tedious and curious Travailes in the best and worst parts of the world which being begunne in Your hopefull Infancy are now finally accomplished in the fulnesse of Your thrice blessed Majority The generall Discourse it selfe is most fixed upon the Lawes Religion Manners Policies and Gouernment of Kings Kingdomes People Principalities and Powers and therefore so much the more sit for your Majesty The defect resting onely in me the worthlesse Author in handling rare and plentifull Subject with a homely and familiar Stile no wayes fit for Soueraignty to peruse Yet Royall Sir vouchsafe to remember how thankefully Alexander received a small Cup of water and what a high Value was set upon the Widowes Mite If I have made vse of my poore Talent the profit redoundeth unto my Country which being shadowed vnder your auspicuous Fauour shall leaue a greater stampe to the worke and a deeper impression of future-knowledge to the curious Vnderstanders And how often wont your ever blessed Father graciously to peruse Lines of mine of far lesser note then these be Yea and viva voce the punctuall Discourse of all my three voyages which are now layd open to the Vulgar world and therefore I dare humbly expect a greater favour for a larger and more serious Taske So likewise your owne Princely adventures beyond Seas in measuring large Kingdoms the glassie face of the great Ocean have invited me to lay prostrate my painefull peregrinations at your Sacred feete Humbly beseeching your Regall goodnesse to remarke the matter and manner of this Worke howsoever the Gift the Giver be deficient And questionlesse as the Bee gathereth sweetest Hony out of sowrest Flowers your Royall vnderstanding may finde something to underprop the Defects of my nothing and my soule to exult in the smallest sparke of your Gracious Clemency And lastly the grievous Sufferings tortures and torments I sustayned in Malaga being taken as a Spye for your Late Fathers Fleete exposed against Algier and condemned to death by their bloody Inquisition for the Gospells sake These

living death Translate it so my Metaphor is such That Time nor I nor Fortune can avouch Thus passion whirling in a cloudy vale I trancing flye I fall I hovering scale And whilst from Phleg'ran fields the weirds me call I in Elizian plaines amforc'd to fall Wherein some flowry faire enamild ground I le place my Tombe mine Epitaph shall sound Of traine-shut sluces of the Thespian spring Where chatring Birds Dodonian trees doe sing And mild Hydaspes streames doe gently flow There shall my Lesbian Layes sad Liticks show And where the Botean Roses strow the Hall Where flot-glass'd Nymphes the Circe-fled Greeks enstall There shall shrill Triton sound Armilla's staind Whom foule affection prey'd and Lucre gaind Load with the filth of dallying Lust and Sin Where bloudy murther like a Thiefe crept in Yet shall the spotlesse HEART triumph in truth When worth reaps fame and vertue conquers youth And crown Dorasmos faith-plight Delphian Bayes With more then Lawrell praise immortall rayes Than brass-brow'd Fiends accurst by Minos doom Flee Fairy flight to Pluto whence you come And taste Phlegeton Lethe court Proserpine Stern Radamanth attends such stinking vermine There Hippolitus slain Pirothous stay Neer t' Acheron all faithlesse Lovers way To welcome Fiendly fright Eremiall guests With flame-flash'd firebrands sulphur scorching tasts Chain'd fury-brangling in remorslesse pain Where Belzebub and Lucifer remain In this umbragious Cell there lurks a hound To bear● Sarpedons Scepter help to sound Your Cleopatran clamours and I think The Ferrier Charon makes such wretches drink Vpon the Stygian banks Then gnashing Spirits That howling waile Hels inexpugnate merits Where 's all your Gentry for I dare conclude That Vertue 's better born than noble blood This epitomiz'd Epilogue I send To them who best can censur't there 's an end But by your leave let me enter into consideration of the intractable passage of my male-contents past and these importunate Designes thereupon ensuing And thus have I in the late dayes of my younger yeeres beene grievously afflicted Ah yea and with more then disastrous injuries over-clowded O heavy under-prop'd wrongs But hath not the like accident befalne to man before yea but never the like condition of murther Nay but then preponderate seriously this consequent may not the scelerate hands of foure blood-shedding Wolves facily devoure and shake a peeces one silly stragling Lambe yea and most certaine that unnawares the harmelesse innocent unexpecting evill may suddenly bee surprized by the ambushment of life-betraying foes All this I acknowledge but whereupon grew this thy voluntary wandring and unconstrained exile I answere that being young and within minority in that occurrent time I was not onely inveigled but by seducements inforced even by the greatest powers then living in my Country to submit my selfe to arbitrement satisfaction and reconciliation But afterward growing in yeares and understanding better the nature of such unallowable redresses and the hainousnesse of the offence I choosed rather voti causa to seclude my selfe from my soyle and exclude my relenting sorrowes to be entertained with strangers than to have a quotidian occular inspection in any obvious object of disastrous misfortune or perhaps any vindicable action might from an unsetled ranckour bee conceived O! a plaine demonstrate cause and good resolution for true it is that the flying from evill is a flying to grace and a godly patience is a victorious freedome and an undaunted conquerour over all wrongs Vengeance is mine saith the Lord and I will repay it To this I answere mine eyes have seene the revenging hand of God upon mine adversaries and these night-gaping foes are trampled under foot while I from strength to strength doe safely goe through the fiery tryall of calamities My consolation arising from the eternall dictum quos amo castigo whom I love I correct And to say my part in my soules experience I never find affliction fall on me Without desert for God is true and just Nor shal it come and without profit be For God is good as mercifull I trust Then welcome all afflictions sent from God He whom he loves he chastneth with his rod. And as one of the Ancients speaketh well Adversa corporis animae remedio sunt aegritudo carnem vulnerat sed mentem curat The Affliction of the body is wholesome Physicke for the soule it woundeth the flesh but cureth the spirit Certain it is that the Lord in chastising his owne doth often move the wicked Reprobates of his wrath to bee the instruments of his correcting hand I could involume as large a Discourse upon this heart-grieving project as upon the late intollerable tortures I sustained by the treacherous Governour and bloody Inquisition of Malaga in Spaine being in quality though not in quantity alike But constantly containing my selfe within the precinct of patience referring such eminences to the Creator which in a part belongeth not to the Creature I may sigh to this World as sorrowfull Aeneas to his Dido Infandum Regina jubes renovare dolorem Thou wouldst I should renew my former griefe To speake of sorrow helplesse of reliefe He melts in woes that uttereth griefe with words Whilst deepest streames the greatest calme affords But now to proceed in my punctuall purpose the nature of man by an inward inclination is alwayes inquisitive of forraigne Newes yea and much more affecteth the sight and knowledge of strange and unfrequented Kingdomes such is the instinct of his naturall affection Navigation hath often united the bodies of Realmes together but Travaile hath done much more for first to the Actor it giveth the impression of understanding experience patience and an infinite treasure of unexperimable vertues secondly it unfoldeth to the World the government of States the authority and disposition of Kings and Princes the secrets manners customes and religions of all Nations and People And lastly bringeth satisfaction to the home-dwelling man of these things he would have seene and could not attempt Travell hath beene in more request amongst the Ancients than it is now with us in the latter Age. Philosophers Poets Historiographers and learned Divines how they have perigrinated to know the life of States and the fashions of farre Countries would be an endlesse taske for me briefely to relate Many I confesse long to see the remotest Region of the Earth but dare not ●ndertake the dangers of sight the chargeable expences of a Tributary journey the hard indurance of flint stones for a soft Feather-bed the extremities of thirst nor the parching heate of the Sun hunger in the belly nor the moist distilling dew to bee a humide Coverlet to their tender skinne with innummerable other insuing miseries But Ixion-like mistaking Iuno would by a meere imagination run out the sleeping course of an endlesse peregrination For my part what I have reaped is by a deer bought knowledge as it were a small contentment in a never contenting subject a bitter pleasant taste of a sweet-seasoned sowre and all in all what I found

standeth the hill Olympus on which Hercules did institute the Olympian games which institution was of long time the Grecian Epoche from whence they reckoned their time Macedon is now called by the Turkes Calethiros signifying a mighty warlike Nation Macedonia containing Thessaly Achaia and Myrmidon lieth as a center to them having Achaia to the East Thessalia to the South Mirmidonia bordering with Aetolia to the West And a part of Hoemus whence it was called Haemonia and some of ●isia superior to the North it was also called Amathia from Amathus once King thereof and then Macedonia from the King Macedo The chiefe Cities are Andorista Andesso Sydra Sederaspen where the mines of gold and silver be which enrich the Turk so monthly receiving thence sometimes 18000 24000 30000 Ducats And Pellia where Alexander the Great was born Bajazet the first wonne this Country from the Constantinopolitans About this City of Salonica is the most fertile and populous Country in all Greece Greece of all Kingdomes in Europe hath been most famous and highly renowned for many noble respects yet most subject to the vicissitude of Fortune than any other who changing Gold for Brasse and loathing their owne Princes suffered many Tyrants to rule over them scourging their folly with their fall and curing a festered soare with a poysoned playster whence succeeded a dismall discord which beginning when the State of Greece was at the highest did not expire till it fell to the lowest ebbe sticking fast in the hands of a grievous desolation which former times if a man would retrospectively measure he might easily finde and not without admiration how the mighty power of the divine Majesty doth sway the moments of things and sorteth them in peremptory manner to strange and unlooked for effects making reason blinde policie astonished strength feeble valour dastardly turning love into hatred fear into fury boldnesse into trembling and in the circuit of one minute making the Conquerour a conquered person Greece now tearmed by the Turks Rum Ili the Roman Country was first called Helles next Grecia of Grecus who was once King thereof The Greekes of all other Gentiles were the first converted Christians and are wonderfull devout in their professed Religion The Priests weare the haire of their heads hanging over their shoulders These that be the most sincere religious men abstain always from eating of flesh or fish contenting themselves with water herbs and bread They differ much in Ceremonies and principles of Religion from the Papists and the computation of their Kalender is as ours They have foure Patriarks who governe the affaires of their Church and also any civill dissentions which happen amongst them viz. one in Constantinople another in Antiochia the third in Alexandria and the fourth in Ierusalem It is not needfull for me to penetrate further in the condition of their estate because it is no part of my intent in this Treatise In a word they are wholy degenerate from their Ancestors in valour vertue and learning Universities they have none and civill behaviour is quite lost formerly in derision they tearmed all other Nations Barbarians A name now most fit for themselves being the greatest dissembling lyers inconstant and uncivill people of all other Christians in the world By the way I must give the Kings Kingdomes a caveat here concerning vagabonding Greeks and their counterfeit Testimonials True it is there is no such matter as these lying Rascals report unto you concerning their Fathers their Wives and Children taken Captives by the Turke O damnable invention How can the Turke prey upon his owne Subjects under whom they have as great Liberiy save only the use of Bels as we have under our Princes the tithe of their Male children being absolutely abrogated by Achmet this Amuraths Father and the halfe also of their Female Dowry at Marriges And farre lesse for Religion can they be banished or deprived of their Benefices as some false and dissembling fellowes under the Title of Bishops make you beleeve There being a free Liberty of Conscience for all kinds of Religion through all his Dominions as well for us free borne Frankes as for them and much more them the Greeks Armenians Syriacks Amoronits Copties Georgians or any other Orientall sort of Christians And therefore look to it that you be no more gulled golding them so fast as you have done lest for your paines you prove greater Asses than they do Knaves In Salonica I found a Germo bound for Tenedos in which I imbarked As we sayled along the Thessalonian 〈◊〉 I saw the two topped hill Pernassus which is of a wondrous height whose tops even kisse the Cl●uds Mons hic cervicibus petit arduus astraduobus Nomine Pernassus super at que cacumine montes Through thickest clouds Pernassus bends his hight Whose double tops do kisse the Stars so bright Here it was said the nine Muses haunted but as for the Fountain Helicon I leave that to be searched and seen by the imagination of Poets for if it had beene objected to my sight like an insatiable Drunkard I should have drunk up the streams of Poësie to have enlarged my dry poeticall Sun scorch'd vein The Mountaine it selfe is somewhat steepe and sterile especially the two tops the one whereof is dry and sandy signifying that Poets are alwayes poore and needie The other top is barren and rockie resembling the ingratitude of wretched and niggardly Patrons the vale between the tops is pleasant and profitable denoting the fruitfull and delightfull soile which painfull Poets the Muses Plow-men so industriously manure A little more Eastward as we fetcht up the coast of Achaia the Master of the Vessell shewed mee a ruinous Village and Castle where hee said the admired Citie of Thebes had been Whose former glory who can truly write of for as the earth when shee is disrobed of her budding and fructifying trees and of her amiable verdure which is her onely grace and garment royall is like a naked table wherein nothing is painted even so is Thebes and her past Triumph defac'd and bereft of her lusty and young Gentlemen as if the spring-tide had been taken from the yeare But what shall I say to know the cause of such like things they are so secret and mysticall being the most remote objects to which our understanding may aspire that wee may easily be deceived by disguised and pretended reasons whilst we seek for the true and essentiall causes for to report things that are done is easie because the eie and the tongue may dispatch it but to discover and unfold the causes of things requireth braine soul and the best progresse of Nature And as there is no evill without excuse nor no pretence without some colour of reason nor wiles wanting to malicious and wrangling wits Even so was there occasion sought for what from Athens and what from Greece whereby the peace and happinesse of Thebes might be dissolved and discord raised to

in long breeches and bare Ancles with red or yellow shooes shod with iron on the Heeles and on the Toes with white Home and weare on their bodies long Robes of Linning or Dimmety and silken Wast-coates of divers Colours the behaviour of the Vulgars being far more civill toward Strangers then at Constantinople or else where in all Turkey The Women here go unmasked abroad wearing on their heads broad and round Capes made of Straw or small Reedes to shade their faces from the Sunne and damnable Libidinous being prepared both wayes to satisfie the lust of their Luxurious Villaines neither are they so strictly kept as the Turkish Women marching where they please There are some twelve thousand allowed Brothel-houses in this Town the Curtez●ns being neatly kept and weekely well looked to by Physicians but worst of all in the Summer time they openly Lycenciate three thousand common Stewes of Sodomiticall boyes Nay I have seene at mid-day in the very Market places the Moores buggering these filthy Carrions and without shame or punishment go freely away There are severall Seates of Justice heere though none to vindicate beastlinesse occupied by Cedeis and Sanzackes which twice a Weeke heare all differences and complaints their chiefe Seriff or Vicegerent being sent from Morocco is returned hither againe every third yeare The two Hills on both sides the planur'd Citty East and west are over-clad with streetes and Houses of two stories high being beautified also with delicate Gardens and on their extreame devalling parts with numbers of Mosquees and watch-towers On which heights and round about the Towne there stand some three hundred Wind-mils most part whereof pertain to the Mosquees and the two magnifick Colledges erected for education of Children in the Mahometanicall Law One of which Accademies cost the King Habahennor in building of it foure hundred and three score thousand Duckats Iacob sonne to Abdulach the first King of the Families of Meennons divided Fez in three parts ●nd with three severall Walles though now invironed with onely one and that broken down in sundry parts The Citizens here are very modest and zealous at their divine service but great dancers and revellers on their solemne festivall dayes wherein they have Bul-baiting Maskerats singing of rimes and processions of Priests The Moores in times past of Fez and Morocco had divers excellent personages well learned and very civill for amongst the Kings Mahometan one can not praise too much the Kings Almansor Maunon and Hucceph being most excellent men in their superstition In whose times flourished the most famous medicines and Philosophers that were among the Pagans as Avi●enne Rasis Albumazar Averroes c. With other great numbers maintained by the King of Morocco that then were Masters of all Barbary and Spaine As in Spaine may be seene yet though now fallen in decay a great number of their Colledges shewing they were great lovers of their Religion and Doctrine and are so to this day save onely in their drinking of Wine forbidden by their Alcoran They were great devisers too of gallant sportings exercise sturnaments and Bul-baiting which Spaine retaineth to this time yea and the Romans did learne and follow many of them Here in Fez there bee a great number of Poets that make Songs on divers subiects especially on Love and Lovers who they openly name in their rimes without rebuke or shame All which Poets once every yeare against Mahomets birth-day make rimes to his praise meane while in the after noone of that festivall day the whole Poets assembling in the market place there is a Desked chayre prepared for them whereon they mount one after an other to receive their verses in audience of all the people and who by them is judged to be best is esteemed all that yeare above the rest having this Epithite the Prince of Poets and is by the Vicegerent and Towne rewarded But in the time of the Maennon Kings the Prince on that day in his owne Pallace did conveine the whole Citizens in whose presence hee made a solemne feast to all the best Poets causing every one of them to recite the praise of Mahomet before his face standing on a high seaffold And to him that was thought to excell the rest the King gave him 100 Sultans of gold a horse a woman slave the long Robe that was about him for the time And to each one of the rest he caused give fifty Sultans so that every one should have some recompense for their paines Indeede a worthy observation and would to God it were now the custome of our Europian Princes to doe the like and especially of this Isle then would bravest wits and quickest braines studdy and strive to show the exquisite ingeniosity of their best stiles and pregnant invention which now is eclipsed and smothered downe because now adayes their is neither regard nor reward for such excellent Pen-men Fez was aunciently named Sylda whose Kingdome hath Atlas to the South the River of Burdraga to the East and Tremizen Morocco to the West And the confines of Guargula and a part of the Sea to the North. Having spent in Fez 17 dayes in all which time wee daily conversed with some Christian Abasines Heragenes or Aethiopian Nigroes some whereof were Merchants and some religious and Monsieur Chattelines businesse not effected seeking Diamonds and precious stones to buy was seriously advised by them to goe for Arracon a great Towne on the Frontiers of the Northerne Aethiopia where he would find abundance of such at an easie rate giving him a perfect direction for his passage hither being 30 daies journey he concluded with their counsell his resolution and perswading me to the same intention I yeeld being over-mastred with the greedy desire of more sights Mean while for our conduct we hire a Dragoman Moore that spoke Italians to be our Interpreter and with him a Tent and two Moorish drudges to guide guard and serve us by the way for fifty eight Sultans of gold eighteene pounds foure shillings English having sixe of their Kinsmen fast bound to a Sansak or Justice for our lives liberties and moneyes Hereupon having provided for our selves with all necessary things and a Mule to carry our Victuals Water and Baggage we discharged our conscionable Hostage at twenty Aspers a day the man being thirty four shillings to each of us and were brought on our way by the aforesaid Christian Heragenes some foure Leagues Where having left them with dutifull thankes wee set forward in our journey and for seven dayes together wee were not violently molested by any thing save intolerable heat finding tented people and scattered Villages all the way The eight day the way being fastidious and Rockey and Chatteline on foote being weary and could not subsist not being used to pedestriall travaile and for our better speed and his reliefe wee mounted him aloft on the top of our baggage At last arriving at Ahetzo where wee reposed being the furthest

commencement of all our best Merchants wealth or at the least mos● part of them And now ceasing to peramble through any more particulars of this familiar Nation to us I was kindly transported from Warsow upon a Waggon to Dansicke being fifty Leagues distant with a generous young Merchant William Bailey my kinde Country-man to whose courtesies I still rest thankfull Here in Dansick● I fell deadly sicke for three Weeks space insomuch that my grave and Tombe was prepared by my Country-men there Neverthelesse in end it pleased Almighty God I recovered my health and then imbarked for Alseynure in Denmarke where being better convalessed I recoursed backe in a Flemish Pink to Stockhollem where after five or sixe dayes being there and finding my sicknesse like to returne againe and fearing the worst I made haste for England At last finding the opportunity of an English ship belonging to Ratcliffe we hoysed saile set forward through the Sound or Beltick Sea for Alseynvere againe Whence after three dayes abode bidding farewell to that Town and Castle we coasted the scurrile and rocky face of Norway at two severall parts but not without great stormes and contrary winds yea and once finally indangered with a threatning Shipwracke which with good luck we happily escaped These tempestuous dangers past upon the seventh day the windes favouring us we safely arrived at London from whence I first began this Voyage and there ended my second Peregrination Magnum virtutis principiumest ut dixit paulatim exercitatus animus visibilia tran●itoria primum Commutare ut post-modum possit derelinquere Delicatus ille est adhue cui patria dulcis est fortis autem jam cui omne solum patria est perfectus ver● cui mundus exilium est The end of the Second Booke of my Second Travailes The Tenth Part. Containing the third Booke of my Third Travailes NOw swolne ambition bred from curious toile Invites my feet to tread parch'd Aethiops Soile To sight great Prester I●han and his Empire That mighty King their Prince their Priest their Sire Their Lawes Religion Manners Life and frame And Amais mount-rais'd Library of ●ame Well I am sped bids Englands Court adiew And by the way the Hiberne bo●nds I view In whose defects the truth like razor sharpe Shall sadly tune my new string'd Irish Harpe Then sound I France and cross'd the Pythen●ise At the Columbian heights which t●reat the skies And coasting Pampelon I 〈◊〉 all Spaine From Be●obia to Jubile Taure againe Then rest'd at Malaga where I was shent And taken for a Spie crush'd rackt and rent Where ah when Treason tride by false position They wrest'd on me their lawlesse Inqui●ition Which after Tortures Hunger Ve●mine 〈◊〉 Condemn'd me quicke stake-bound to burne in ashes Gods providence comes in and I 'me discovered By Merchants meanes by Aston last delivered Where noble Maunsell Generall of that Fleet That I was rack'd for did kind Haulkins greet With strict command to send me home for Court To shew King James my torments pangs and tort Loe I am come to Bath I 'me sent and more Mine hoplesse life made Worlds my sight deplore Which here I le sing in Tragicke tune to all That love the Truth and looke for Babels fall BUt now having finished the two Discriptions of my first and second Adventures it rest n●w most necessary to relate the Meritorious designe and miserable effect of my third Voyage After I had I say by the great providence of God escaped infinite dangers by Seas suffering thrice shipwrack by Land in Woods and on Mountaines often invaded by ravenous Beasts crawling and venemous Wormes daily incombred by home-bred Robbers and remote Savages five times strip'd to the skin excessive fastidiousnesse unspeakable adversities parching heats scorching drouth intollerable distresses of hunger imprisonments and cold yet all these almost incredible sufferings past could never abate the flame of mine austiere affection conceived but ambitious curiosity exposing me to a third Voyage I may say as Aene●s did in his penetentiall Mood O socij neque eni●i ignari sumus ante malorum O passi graviora dabit Deus his quoque finem O Socials we 're not ignorant of losses O suffrings sad God too will end these ●rosses But to observe a methodicall order I thinke it best to shew the unacquainted Reader a reasonable satisfaction for undertaking the third and almost invincible attempt First the most speciall and urgent cause proceeded from a necessary good the necessity of knowledge in the requisite perfection of Europes full and spacious sight the ancient Tierce and now most Christian world wanting former no part thereof unseene as well under the Turke as Christian except Ireland and the ha●fe of Spaine The second cause was moved from a more in●atiate content that when I had and having compassed all Europe my resolution was to borrow a larger dimmense of ground in Affricke than formerly I had done in twice before even to Aethiopia Prester Iehans Dominions For the same effect and a great impression to my Resolution I set pen to paper drawing from the distaffe of the retractable Muses a Poeticall pamphlet Dedicated to themselves to their profound Apollo his then hopefull Heire and divers Noble Peeres of both Kingdomes And having from a Royall favour obtained his Majesties Letters and Seales of safe Conduct and Regall recommendation to all Kings Princes and Dukes c. I in all obsequious humility bad farewel to this sequestrate and most auspicuous Monarchy and arriving at Dublin in Ireland the two and twentieth of August one thousand sixe hundred and nineteene I saluted the right Honourable Sir Oliver St. Iohns late Lord Grandison and then Lord Deputy there from whom for regard and singular courtesies I was greatly obliged So was I also to many of the English Nobilitie and Knighthood there who through the whole Countrey where ever I came entertained mee kindly sending Guides with mee from place to place yea and sometimes safe-guards also beside in their houses great good cheere and welcome But in speciall a dutifull remembrance I owe to the memory of that sometimes judicious and religious Lord Arthu● late Lord Chichester Baron of Belfast c. Who in his time for Vertue Wisdome and Valour wore the Diademe of Love and Garland of true Noblenesse Of whom and for whose losse if I should more praise and longer lament my inke would turn to brinish teares and I to helplesse sorrow But leaving him who lived in goodnesse here and now in glorie for ever I celebrate these Lines to his eternall Fame If ever Bountie shin'd in loyall brest If ever Iudgment flow'd from generous mouth If ever Vice-roy rul'd this Kingdome best If ever Valour honour'd hopefull youth If ever Wisdome Astrea's worth possest If ever Vertue was inclin'd to ruth If ever Iustice enormities redrest If ever Patron paterne was of truth Then noble Chichester the Heavens assigne These gifts thy honour'd parts were truly thine And now after

that one of our Kings subjects should be troubled by your Inquisition but as you have murdred me for alledged Treason so you meane to Martyr me for Religion And you Governour as you have Tortured and hunger-starved this helpelesse body consumed with cold and Vermine to the last of my life the Almighty God who revealeth the secrets of all things although I be never relieved will certainely discover it to my Countrey and to the World And is this the best of your good deeds you repay to our mercifull King who then being onely King of Scotland in the time of your just over-throw of Eighty Eight gave secourse to thousands of your Ship-wracked people for many moneths and in the end caused transport them safely to their desired Ports Leaving to the Worlds memory an eternall stampe of Christian Bounty Mercy and Royall Charitid and your acquittance to him is an imputation of ●reachery to his Fleete detaining and mis-regarding his Letters and Seales and now imposing to a tormented Innocent your lawlesse Inquisition To which the Governour answered all tha● was true but it was done more through feare then love and therefore deserved the lesser thankes but intrim wee will follow the uttermost of our ends And the Jesuite Predicator to confirme his words said there was no Faith to ●ee kept with Heretikes which directly or indirectly is the sublime policy of Conquerours which our mighty and innumerable Nation evermore taketh notice of and observeth Then the Inquisitor arising expressed himselfe thus Behold the powerfull majesty of Gods mother Commander of her Sonne equall to the Father Wife to the Holy-Ghost Queene of Heaven Protector of Angels and sole Gubernatrix of the Earth c. How thou being first taken as a Spye accused for Trechery and innocently Tortured as we acknowledge we were better informed lately from Madrile of the English intention yet it was her power her Divine power which brought these judgments upon thee it that thou hast wrote calumniously against her blessed miracles of Loretta an● against his Holinesse the great agent and Christs Viccar on Earth Therefore thou hast justly falne into our hands by her speciall appointment Thy Books and Papers are miraculously translated by her speciall providence with my owne Countrey-men wherefore thou maist clearely see the impenetrable Mysteries of our glori●us Lady in punishing her offenders and for a humble satisfaction Repent thee of thy wickednesse and bee converte● to the Holy mother Church And after many such like exhortations of all the foure the Inquisitor assigned mee eight daies for my Conversion saying that he and the Tiatines would twice a day visite mee in that time intreating me to bee advised againe the next morning of these doubts and difficulties that withstood my Conscience Then in leaving me the Jesuite Predicator making a Crosse upon my crossed brest said My sonne behold you deserve to be burnt quick but by the grace of our Lady of Loretta whom you have blasphemed wee will both save your soule and body Spewing forth also this Faeminine Latine Nam mansueta et misericordiosa est Ecclesia O Ecclesia Romana extra quem non est salus They gone and I alone all this night was I instant with my God imploring his grace to rectify my thoughts illuminate my understanding confirme my confidence beatifie my memory to sanctifie my knowledge to expell the seruile feare of death and to save my soule from the intangling Corruption of any private ends illusions or mundane Respects whatsoever The next morning the three Ecclesiastickes returned and being placed with Chaires and Candles the Inquisitor made interrogation of what difficulties errours or mis-beleefe I had To whom ingenuously I answered I had none neither any difficulty errour nor mis-beliefe but was confident in the promises of Iesus Christ and assuredly believed his revealed will in the Gospell professed in the Reformed Catholike Church which being confirmed by Grace I had the infallible assurance in my soule of the true Christian Faith To these words hee answered thou art no Christian but an absurd Hereticke and without conversion a member of perdition whereupon I replyed Reverend Sir the nature of Charity and Religion doe not consist in opprobrious speeches wherefore if you would convert mee as you say convince mee by Argument if not all your threatnings of Fire Death nor Torments shall make mee shrink from the truth of Gods word in Sacred Scriptures Where upon the mad Inquisitor clapped mee on the face with his foote busing mee with many Raylings and if the Jesuits had not intercepted him hee had stabbed me with a knife where when dismissed I never saw him more The third day insuing and having broake their promise the two Jesuits returned and after a frowning silence the Superiour asked mee of my resolution I told him I was resolved already unlesse hee could shew mee good reasons in the contrary Whereupon having past with me some few superficiall Arguments of their seven Sacraments Intercession Transubstantiation Images Purgatory Miracles Merit c. he begun to brag of their Church her Antiquity Vniuersality and Vniformity Ancient no said J for the Profession of my Faith hath beene ever since the first time of the Apostles And Christ had ever his owne Church howsoever obscure in the greatest time of your darknesse So Rome foure hundred yeares and upward was the true Church but afterward falling in apostacy by meanes of her corrupt leaders wee have left her in nothing but what shee hath left her former selfe Universall no alhough shee assumeth a Catholike name was not the Church in the East a greater Church than yours in the West for hundreds of yeare● and I pray you what are now the Oriental Churches in Asia besides the Greeks and the Aethiopian Africans that doe not so much as know or heare of your pope far lesse his profession With no small adoe Boniface the third ●btained of Phocas the Emperour to bee called universall Bishop which was assisted afterward by Pippin the Frenh King and ratified by Paleologus the Father of Constantine who lost Constantinople And what long controversies about this new power was between your Popes and the Councells of Carthage Calcedon Ephesus Alexandria and Nice Uniformable no some of your Priests give the Sacrament onely in Bread for reall flesh and blood some in wine without bread and some in both The Bavarians in their own language sing the Psalms in prose at their Masses and not else where done The second Commandement goeth currant amongst some of your Catholikes in France yet not in Britaine nor Provence so doeth it in Austri● and Bavaria but not in Italy and Spaine It is most evident what your former Popes have confirmed the succeeding Popes have disanulled and daily doe as their present lives and your ancient Histories beare a true record And was there not at one time three Popes in three severall places and oftentimes two at once One professing one Heresie and